Labor committed to more funding pledges

LABOR marked day 10 of the election campaign with two major funding announcements worth almost $270 million.

The biggest of those was a $209 million pledge to build 137 new trade training centres around the country - with the key states of New South Wales and Queensland the biggest beneficiaries.

Labor also committed $58.5 million to improving the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to extreme weather and natural disasters, including the establishment of a National Centre for Extreme Weather.